Animal instrument



Filed Sept. 17. 19

IN VEN TOR. W/w/m E 4 UTGE ATTORNEY United States Patent 2,764,982ANIMAL INSTRUMENT William F. Lutge, Newhall, Calif. ApplicationSeptember 17, 1954, Serial No. 456,667 7 Claims. (Cl. 128-223) Thisinvention relates .to an instrument especially adapted for use inadministering liquid medication to animals.

Dairymen, veterinarians and others connected with the supply of medicalinstruments for animals have been interested in finding an instrumentthat could feed liquid medication to animals without danger to theanimal or the one giving the medication.

An important object of this invention, therefore, is to provide aninstrument that will give medication in liquid form without danger ofstrangulation to the animal or any danger to the one giving themedication.

Heretofore the instruments used have been made of glass which are easilybroken and with the liquid in the instrument being uncontrolled, surginghas resulted which has caused the animal to strangle. The animal toavoid is slight so that surging of this condition will clamp down on theinstrument with its teeth, causing the instrument to break, creatingdamage to themselves and to the one giving the medication.

Another important object of the invention, therefore, is to provide anunbreakable instrument which will overcome the foregoing disadvantage.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view the inventionconsists of the minor details of construction, arrangement andcombination of parts more fully hereafter described, claimed andillustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of the instrument embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an elevational view of the dosing top of the instrument;

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the top of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the body of the instrument;

Fig. 7 is an elevational view of .the body of the instrument; and

Fig. 8 is a detailed fragmentary sectional view of the air inlet valveof the instrument in reverse relation to the position of the valve, asshown in Fig. 2.

Referring more in detail to the drawing wherein like parts aredesignated by like reference numerals, the reference numeral 10 is usedto designate the body of the instrument embodying the invention.

The body 10 is made from a tough unbreakable clear plastic and has anoval shaped bottom 11 and an open cylindrical shaped top 12.

Graduation lines 13 are molded onto the body 10. The graduation lines 13permit the use of only one instrument, relieving the necessity of havingan extra container to mix the medicine before it is ready to be given tothe animals.

The top of the body 10 is provided with screw threads 14 anddiametrically opposed concave ribbed grooves 15 are provided in the body10 adjacent the bottom 11. With the bottom 11 being of oval shape, whenthe bottom is placed in the palm of the hand, the fingers will fit inone groove while the thumb will fit in the other groove in ice theopposite side. Thus, a secure grip can be made with either the right orleft hand. The oval shape of the bottom permitting hands of varioussizes to easily grip the body 10 of the instrument.

The bottom 11 of the body 10 is provided with a centrally located airinlet opening 16 which is adapted to be closed by a ball valve 17. Asemi-spherical housing 18 having an air inlet opening 19 therein ismolded integral with the inner surface of the bottom 11 and houses theball valve 17 therein.

A dozing top 20 for the body 10, Fig. 4, is substantially funnel shapedin cross-section having a conical shaped body portion 21 and a graduallytapered tubular neck 22. An annular ring 23 is molded on the neck 22adjacent a radially cut open end 24 thereof and the ring 23 may be usedto retain a nursing nipple or for securing a flexible nozzle or hose tothe neck for injection purposes.

The radially cut open end 24 will prevent the animal from closing theend of the neck 22 with its tongue.

The inner surface of the body portion 21 is provided with screw threads25 which mate with the screw threads 14 of the body 10 whereby the top24 and body 10 are securely connected together.

In use when the body 10 is in position with the neck 22 in the animalsmouth and the body It) tilted, air will pass the ball valve 17 and enterthe body 10 through inlet openings 16 and 19, respectively. Theadmission of air the liquid within the body 10 will be eliminated.

When the body 10 is placed on a support, as in Fig. 2, or held in thisposition, the ball valve 17 will close the air inlet opening 16 andprevent the liquid from leaking from the body 10.

There has thus been provided an eflicient instrument that may besuccessfully used in treating animals and it is believed that theoperation and construction thereof will be apparent to those skilled inthe art.

It is also to be understood that changes in the minor details ofconstruction, arrangement and combination of parts may be resorted toprovided they fall within the spirit of the invention and the scope ofthe appended claims.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. An instrument for feeding liquid medication to animals comprising atransparent body'having an oval bottom and a cylindrical shaped opentop, and a dosing top detachably connected to said body, said top beingof conical shape and having a tapered open ended neck integraltherewith.

2. An instrument as in claim 1, wherein said body is provided withgraduations for properly mixing the liquid in the body.

3. An instrument as in claim 1, wherein said body is provided withdiametrically opposed concave shaped ribbed grooves for securing a firmgrip on the body.

4. An instrument as in claim 1, wherein the open end References Cited inthe file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,192,487 Zok July 25,1916 Rogers Aug. 6, 1918

